Research Helps

Destiny Online Catalog

• Find a book's lexile level:
  • Look the book up by title
  • Look at the bottom of the brief information for lexile level
• Subject Search
  • Under "Explore" find subject listings
  • Click on live links for other books on the same subject
• Webpath Express
  • Filters the internet
  • Gives a grade level
• Finding a lexile level from a Webpath Express internet article
  • To to lexile.com
  • Lexile Analyzer
    • Register /Login
    • Save as a Text file
    • Can only be 1000 words

Pioneer Library

• EBSCO Points of View and Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context
• CultureGrams--states, countries
• World Book Online
• EBSCO
  • College-level database
  • Student Research Center--magazine and newspaper articles
• Gale Global Issues in Context, Biography in Context, Science in Context, etc.
• Gale Virtual Reference
• Emedia--videos
• Noodle Tools--citation
• Learning Express--practice tests for SAT, ACT, some AP
• Soundsaboundz--sound clips

• Early Peoples
• Inventions and Discoveries
• Living Green--biomes, conservation
• Kids, Student--translation

Primary Sources

• World Book Advanced
• Library of Congress (American Memory)
  • Primary Source Sets for Teachers
• Pioneer Library--EBSCO Student Research Center
• Docs Teach
• Digital Vaults
• Google-- Shakespeare (or any other theme) "primary sources"